Improvement in fertilizers



' UNITED- STATES, PATENT QFFICE.

ALEXANDER W. ROWLAND, OF WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA.

IMF ROVEMENT IN FERTILIZERS.

' Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 178,194, dated May 30, 1 876 application filed April 26, 1876.

To all whom it may concern: on, alternating, until the whole of the solution Be it known that I, ALEXANDER W. ROW- has been added tothe mixed solid ingredients. LAND, of the town and county of Wilson and On the top of the heap thus prepared I then State of North Carolina, have invented a new spread evenly seventy-five pounds of either and Improved Fertilizing Compound; and 1 ground plaster or slaked lime, and one hundo hereby declare that the following is a full, dred and eigliteen pounds of pure dissolved clear, and exact description of the same. bone. Now, mix the whole thoroughly to- My invention relates to an improved fertigether, and let stand a few weeks, when it is lizingcompound, which consists of wood-ashes, ready for use. cotton-seed, rich surface earth, stable-manure, This fertilizer can be used for all crops for sulphate of magnesia, chloride of sodium, sulwhichother guanos are employed, and, as to phate of soda, sulphate of ammonia, nitrate of its application, can be used in quantities to soda, pure dissolved bone, and ground plaster, suit the soil. The quantity herein prescribed compounded in the manner, and in or about will be ordinarily distributed over five acres. the proportions hereinafter named. The advantages of this fertilizer rest princi- In carrying out my invention, I take of unpally in the cheapness of production, the cost leachedWood-ashes, three bushels; of cottonbeing only about one-fourth that of commerseed, three bushels; of dry rich surface earth, cial manures, and yet possessing the same clear of stone, turf, and sticks, twenty bushmerit as a fertilizer. els; of either stable-manure, dry and clear of Having thus described my invention, what straw, or well-rotted wood-pile manure, twenty I claim as new is bushels, which ingredients are mixed thor- The fertilizing compound herein described, oughly together. I then take of sulphate of composed of unleached wood-ashes, cottonmagnesia, five pounds; of chlorideof sodium, seed, rich surface earth, stable-manure or its fifteen pounds; of sulphate? of soda, twentyequivalent, hereinbefore described, sulphate five pounds; of sulphate of ammonia, thirty of magnesia, chloride of sodium, sulphate of pounds of either nitrate of soda or nitrate of soda, sulphate of ammonia, nitrate of soda or potash, forty pounds, and dissolve these salts its equivalent, hereinbefore described, disin ten common sized wood-bucketfuls of water. solvedbone, and ground plaster or its equiv- Upon a layer of the first mixture two or three alent, hereinbefore described, in or about the inches deep and abouteightfeetsquare sprinkle proportions herein specified.

of the solution of salts above mentioned enough T to moisten well, but not to run. Then, again, ALEXANDER ROWLAL spread of the first mixture a layer of the same Witnesses: depth upon thefimoistened layer, and sprinkle V L. A. STITH,

with the solution of salts, as before, and so E. O. WOODSON. 

